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/ 21 January 2009
A surge of Rwandan troops into eastern DRC as part of a joint operation to oust a Hutu militia has stirred Congolese memories of past atrocities.
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/ 11 October 2008
Rebel forces have withdrawn from an army base in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after having taken it in fierce fighting.
Nearly 4 000 members of one of the half-dozen armed bands operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) violence-ridden Ituri region have begun to lay down their arms in a move hailed as a breakthrough. But the United Nations on Tuesday acccused another group of continuing to commit atrocities in the north-eastern region.